Code Review

Emeka emekamicro at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 09:26:23 EDT 2011


Philipp,

Thanks so much for your time and comment. I will re-work my code
accordingly.

Regards,
Emeka

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Philipp Hagemeister <phihag at phihag.de>wrote:

> Instead of comments, you can often use docstrings
> (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/ ):
>
> This is hard to read due to the indentation, and cannot be accessed
> programmatically:
>
> #Update the GUI
>    def update_gui(self, new_word):
>
> Instead, use this:
>
>    def update_gui(self, new_word):
>        "Update the GUI."
>
> Now, you can use help(Message) to get information about the method.
> You'll notice "Update the GUI." is not helpfull at all for a method
> called update_gui. Comments (and docstrings) that reproduce the method
> name are not useful.
>
> A couple of minor things:
>
> * If you delete code, delete it, don't comment it out.
> * Use newlines between two methods. Compare
> def a(self):
>  pass
> def b(self):
>  pass
> def c(self):
>  pass
>
> with
>
> def a(self):
>  pass
>
> def b(self):
>  pass
>
> def c(self):
>  pass
>
> The latter looks neat and not nearly as crammed as the former.
> * Don't use newlines where they shouldn't be, for example in
>                if val == 0:
>
>                      label.unbind('<Button-1>')
> * Even if it's just the comments, typos make a very bad impression of a
> coder and the code. I'd automatically assume lots of bugs and untested
> code when I see more than the occasional typo.
> * GUI programming is fun, but does not lend itself to structured
> programming and good practices. You should never use global. Instead,
> have an object encapsulating the state and pass that object to the
> method itself or its object.
> * Don't commit .pyc files, they're totally useless. Since python 2.6,
> you can add the following in your .bashrc to make python not create them:
>
> export "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=dont"
>
> In git, you can add the following in your project's .gitignore or
> ~/.gitignore_global:
>
> *.pyc
>
> [More on .gitignore: http://help.github.com/ignore-files/ ]
> * Otherwise, the code looks pretty good for a beginner. You may,
> however, want to replace
>
> def word_not_found(word):
>      if word in searchedwordset:
>        return 0
>      else:
>        return 1
>
> with just:
>
> def word_not_found(word):
>  return word not in searchedwordset
>
> (or just skip this method and write word not in searchedwordset).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philipp
>
>
>
> Emeka wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > While learning Python I put together another Text Twist. I would want
> > somebody to go through it and comment.
> > https://github.com/janus/Text-Twist
> >
> >
>
>
>


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